The Friendship of Books: And Other LecturesMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 298 Seiten |
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... MILTON LECTURE IX . 187 LECTURE X. MILTON CONSIDERED AS A SCHOOLMASTER 207 EDMUND BURKE LECTURE XI . 232 LECTURE XII . ACQUISITION AND ILLUMINATION 258 ON CRITICS · LECTURE XIII . . 275 LECTURES . I. ON THE FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS.1 I I ...
... MILTON LECTURE IX . 187 LECTURE X. MILTON CONSIDERED AS A SCHOOLMASTER 207 EDMUND BURKE LECTURE XI . 232 LECTURE XII . ACQUISITION AND ILLUMINATION 258 ON CRITICS · LECTURE XIII . . 275 LECTURES . I. ON THE FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS.1 I I ...
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... strife , when men could no more regard writing books , or even reading them , as an amusement ; when the past must be studied for the sake of the present , or not at all . John Milton belongs to that time . 10 [ I. THE FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS .
... strife , when men could no more regard writing books , or even reading them , as an amusement ; when the past must be studied for the sake of the present , or not at all . John Milton belongs to that time . 10 [ I. THE FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS .
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... Milton dealt his blows unsparingly enough , and we come in for at least our full share of them . I know all that , and yet I must confess that I have found him a friend , and a very valuable friend , even when I have differed from him ...
... Milton dealt his blows unsparingly enough , and we come in for at least our full share of them . I know all that , and yet I must confess that I have found him a friend , and a very valuable friend , even when I have differed from him ...
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... Milton's . There are few passages in his prose writings , full as they are of gorgeous passages , more beautiful than that in which he defends himself from the charge of entering from choice or vanity into controversies , by alleging ...
... Milton's . There are few passages in his prose writings , full as they are of gorgeous passages , more beautiful than that in which he defends himself from the charge of entering from choice or vanity into controversies , by alleging ...
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... Milton's time , which many people would at once recognize as a delightful friend ; I mean Izaak Walton's " Angler . " Knowing nothing of his craft , I should only betray my ignorance by entering upon it , and should lessen the pleasure ...
... Milton's time , which many people would at once recognize as a delightful friend ; I mean Izaak Walton's " Angler . " Knowing nothing of his craft , I should only betray my ignorance by entering upon it , and should lessen the pleasure ...
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Seite 210 - While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the...
Seite 244 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit, For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Seite 249 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 282 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Seite 202 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Seite 180 - And layd her stole aside. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place; Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
Seite 250 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion ... if government were a matter of will upon my side, yours, without question, ought to be superior.
Seite 206 - Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives.
Seite 282 - It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Seite 282 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.